The Daily Star, 3 August 2004 Just over a week after Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi visited Damascus, in the context of a regional tour of Arab states, it is worth examining what the get-together meant in terms of Syrian-Iraqi relations. Behind the kisses between Allawi and Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Naji al-Utri lay Syria's desire…
On Syria, the US disregards the victims
The Daily Star, 7 July 2004 The June 12 letter that Elliott Engel and 11 other members of the US Congress addressed to the State Department, asking it to put pressure on the Syrian government to release from detention Aktham Nuaisah, the head of the Committees for the Defense of Democratic Liberties and Human Rights…